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Skiing babes to skating dog

Rugs to drugs

More and more I'm finding books listed on Craigslist and the seller saying "make offer." When I e-mail and ask what they have, I get something like "I dunno. Haven't given it much thought. Do you have an offer?" Sight unseen, based on an email inquiry of whether the lot described is even still available. Anybody else notice this lately?

Diamonds to jewel of hope (not to mention a jungle connection too!)

The truth can lie in the middle too...,maybe the dealer overgraded a bit and CGC undergraded a bit. Anyone can miss something/make a mistake.

Fleeing the mad furies to fleeing the hoosegow

Nazi bombs to bombing the Nazis

I thought he was selling Little Dot

Woman getting manhandled to man getting woman-handled

Haunted hand to wanted man

Sinnott, hands down, with all due to respect to Stone and others.

Copper. I have experienced the most action with higher grade fairly priced copper such as Carnage keys, X-Force keys, Spawn etc. I've also observed the GA action but haven't offered Anything of the sort that's selling.

Yes, please if you wouldn't mind. The grade makes no sense by any set of grading standards. .5=poor. Every flaw you enumerated equals poor (including incompleteness). It would be nice to understand; my theory is they are changing the way they handle brittleness; nothing else makes sense. (A brittle book can look nice, but if it crumbles at the touch, poor alone does not fully explain it. At least, I cannot think of anything else that would marry these two concepts of .5 and qualified. Is it very brittle?)

Thank you all; I'm netting out on the high side of this range as well with the book in hand (it's still got that solid feel in hand, not flimsy like some lower grade silver). Sorry for the delay in expressing my thanks but I just arose from a few days off the boards, totally consumed by the day job. Thank you all!

I like this....while the extent of the book's impact is speculative, at the very least the argument that Cold is the first significant Silver Age villain creation is a significant point. At the very least it's a great argument that the book is still underrated. I'm not sure that Marvel doesn't happen though; when you look at the Challs then look at some of Stan and Jack's early efforts (Dr Droom, TTA27, TOS 32, Two-Gun Kid 60, first two costume-free FF's) the idea of uncostumed sci-fi type heroes with regular guy lives seems to be percolating for a while. The Spidey of AF15 isn't much beyond this; the costume is a vehicle Peter's efforts at celebrity. Things moved quickly, and he was the turning point, but the same seeds were there. I also like the argument for the impact of Flash 123; this the Avengers 4 of the DCU. While Showcase 4 and 8 and FF1 may have birthed the silver age, the role of Avengers 4 and Flash 123 in ensuring the momentum is sometimes overlooked. Through two different routes, these books bring the Golden Age into the Silver Age, and the concept of continuity is brought to the forefront.

I like this....while the extent of the book's impact is speculative, at the very least the argument that Cold is the first significant Silver Age villain creation is a significant point. At the very least it's a great argument that the book is still underrated. I'm not sure that Marvel doesn't happen though; when you look at the Challs then look at some of Stan and Jack's early efforts (Dr Droom, TTA27, TOS 32, Two-Gun Kid 60, first two costume-free FF's) the idea of uncostumed sci-fi type heroes with regular guy lives seems to be percolating for a while. The Spidey of AF15 isn't much beyond this; the costume is a vehicle Peter's efforts at celebrity. Things moved quickly, and he was the turning point, but the same seeds were there. I also like the argument for the impact of Flash 123; this the Avengers 4 of the DCU. While Showcase 4 and 8 and FF1 may have birthed the silver age, the role of Avengers 4 and Flash 123 in ensuring the momentum is sometimes overlooked. Through two different routes, these books bring the Golden Age into the Silver Age, and the concept of continuity is brought to the forefront.

While I understand the acquisition perspective of those who find it better to have a piece of an iconic and historical book, I just fear that slabbing them creates incentive to dismantle low grade or even complete coverless copies. Other than that fear, I have no issue with it. To each his own as collecting goes; I just hope no one is destroying history to parse out pieces of it. That said, if someone has an incomplete copy of a major key that is starting to turn brittle, perhaps in a case like that it is the best way to preserve history. I guess for me, how the page is parsed out very much matters. Not that I get to be the arbiter, but that's my logic and my perspective as a collector: we are stewards of these rare things our hobby prizes; try to make the best long-term decision as well.

I haven't; maybe my LCS has peeked, but I haven't been in.

Nice, JF! It's a long wait, but worth it! I'm still waiting myself

Giving the eye to losing an eye

I've got to recommend the market report from Jamie Newbold of Southern California Comics. Newbold spends about half the column by providing us an enlightening article on the pitfalls of shipping insurance and how difficult it can be to collect, whether from USPS or private collectibles insurance. Well worth the read; deserved to be a separate article on its own, under its own headline.

I really do think this one's underrated....wartime villain caricatures aside, is there another major Golden Age hero cover with a caricature like this one? I'm sure I could be missing some, but I cannot think of any other where the character is of such central prominence to the cover image as in is case.

Nice! What was the name of the shop?

By OP request...

Comin' up!